Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary

2014-01-05 Thread Rima Schulkind
Despite my fear of being considered too dumb to use OO, here's my experience: when a document I was working on (just trying to insert a line by hitting return between two lines) suddenly became all hashtag gibberish - as then did all my stored OO files - I reinstalled OO. And all was well.

Re: What do you think of AndrOpenOffice? (nm)

2013-12-27 Thread Rima Schulkind
Not much. It is not as user- friendly as the old AppleWorks was. It seems to be programmed to insist on capitalizations and paragraph indents I don't want and don't know how to get rid of. I usually opt for Microsoft Word when creating a new document. On Dec 27, 2013, at 3:32 PM, Jeffrey

Re: Informal Mac OS / OpenOffice Survey

2013-12-11 Thread Rima Schulkind
10.7.5 On Dec 11, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Rob Weir wrote: An informal survey to help our project planning: If you run OpenOffice on the Mac, what version of Mac OS are you running today? 10.4 (Tiger) 10.5 (Leopard) 10.6 (Snow Leopard) 10.7 (Lion) 10.8 (Mountain Lion) 10.9 (Mavericks)

Re: PDF-to-ODT conversion

2013-12-02 Thread Rima Schulkind
Thankyouthyankyouthankyou. It worked like a dream. I'm so used to my old Mac word processing apps not allowing copy-and-paste of pdf's that I never even tried with my new one. On Dec 2, 2013, at 5:07 PM, mt wrote: Back to the original topic (but thanks for the useful info about download

Re: How?

2013-08-23 Thread Rima Schulkind
Wish I could help. I think it is the worst word processing app I've ever used. On Aug 23, 2013, at 5:23 PM, Al Simpkins wrote: Ido not use Open Office and tried to remove it via control panel but message says it can't without inserting a disc wit removal on it. How can I do that when OO WAS A

Re: Navigator

2013-07-19 Thread Rima Schulkind
I was cc'd this email, and while it doesn't address my query, you sound like someone who might know something about this awful word processing app. Here are the questions I sent to users@open office- and received no response: 1. How can I change the default font? 2. Can I make saving to the